Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-378) and index
The founding fathers, an age of realism -- Thomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democrat -- Andrew Jackson and the rise of liberal capitalism -- John C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class -- Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth -- Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator -- The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism -- William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist -- Theodore Roosevelt, the conservative as progressive -- Woodrow Wilson, the conservative as liberal -- Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, the patrician as opportunist